The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-02-24
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE OF A
WOMAN WORTH WINNING.

Cleanliness and Its virtues-Rules for
lutions-Interior Observation-Disclosures
Kitchen Hints-Notes and Items.
My brother, it is said and believe it to
be in many cases true, that men do not read
women readily; do not understand their real
characters even though those characters may
be seen by other women. Now, let me give
you an infallible rule, one which you can
apply in every case and never be disappointed
in the results. 1t is simply this: When you
come into the presence of a woman whom
you are meeting for the first time note the
impression she makes on your mind. If she
reminds you at once of your sex and her own
by look, word or act, let her alone, for her
influence will degrade you. She may please
your eye by her beauty, your ear by her
voice, fiatter you by her words and manner,
but she will never be a true friend to you.
She studies to please and expects you to
please III return. She has no thought above
present pleasure and no care for anything
but self. She will never uplift you beyond
your present plane nor incite you to deeds of
honor. She must live out her organization
and by suffering be made to see the true aim
of life before she can be to you in any respect
what n woman should be to a mana guide
he can safely trust and honor, and, per
chance, even love.
IL, on the other hand, you meet a woman
whose presence brings no thought of sex into
your mind, who brings out your best
thoughts and gives you hers in return,
whose manner encourages no ignoble deed or
word, who respects herself, and involuntarily
calls out your respect for her, make that
woman your friend, no matter what may be
her age or social position, no matter if she
be poorly dressed and plain featured and one
not calculated to make show in the world
of fashion, she has soul filed with good
and her thoughts are the forerunners of good
deeds and she will prove a source of CON
slant inspiration to you that will draw you
to higher planes of development and tend to
make you the man you ought to be. After
spending an hour with such a woman you
leave her feeling more manly, more erect
morally and physically, and though you may
not have the thought clearly formed in your
mind, yet you are conscious that the time
spent in her company spent wisely.
You are aware that her influence is elevating
and refining and you feel your better nature
rousing into action. You feel ashamed of
your misleeds and wish yourself better than
you are, and resolve to make yourself more
worthy of her regard. Evils that you have
scarce noticed before you are hardly willing
to- tolerate, new desires awake and you
breathe for time now, purer atmosphere.
When you find woman who produces
these or similar impressions on you cultivate
her acquaintance; she will do you good.
Her influence will be ennobling, not degrad-
ing. She will never drag man down, but
raise him to a higher level and bring out in
strong relief all the grand nobility of man
hood that is in him, and the strength and
purity of his highest ard best gifts.
The friendship and love of a woman of this
class is worth winning, my brother; and
happy is he who can call such woman his
friend, and doubly blessed is he who can win
her for his life companion Association with
her will be on plane far above selfish pas
sion, and round out the life into harmonious
completeness that not only influences the in
dividual but all who come in contact with
him. Cor. Christian Register.
Cleanliness is Next to GodIiness.
IL have seen the women of many nations, ="
remarked an old gentleman to a reporter the
other day, ''both in society and at home,
and l confess with pride that think Ameri-
can women, a rule, are the neatest the
world over. Have you ever lived in a viii
lage and noted the fastidous habits Of the
bellies, who are perhaps more particular
about their appearance than they would be
v,
body knows them, and because they cannot
go down the street without being scrutinized
closely by some admirers have known vii
lage madens after having married and set
tied down in great city take advantage of
the wilderness Of houses and strange faces
and go about in such slatternly attire as they
would never have assumed in their native
village; but these cases are rare.
You take girl who is neat at home and
she will be neat everywhere else. If she
wears IA clean calico in the morning she will
wear u spotless merino in the afternoon. IL
she wears a clean collar in the morning she
will replace it with fresher one in the even
ing, and So on.
THE habit Of neatness or its opposite is an
interesting study in women. The character
istic naturally exists just the same in men,
but the circumstances governing their lives
are such do not bring out this phase in
such pronounced fashion. / don't doubt
that some of the greatest slatterns on earth
are men. but they are seldom found out YOU
know. Ii you are sufficiently intimate with
a gentleman to gain access to his apartment
you will soon have very excellent method
of Judging of his habits. IL you find his
brushes full of hair and lint, his towels and
soiled clothes kicking about everywhere,
with bowl OF dirty water always ON his
washstand, you may easily judge that he
will 20 out III the street with grease spots on
his clothes AMI half >oiled linen on.
Now, between you and me, detest dirty
people. There is something repulsiva
about untidy habits to me as there is in real
wicke,lness. l don't think you can be a good
man or n good woman without possessing
thoroughly clean personal habits and 1 will
stick To it until my dying day They tel
me / am crank ON this subject. / don't
care whether l am or not. Denver Trib-
uns.
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70 cut in thin slices and toast.